Holy shit!

Check out these two gems from Chicago's past. This is the Southside Movement; they're not widely known outside of the hiphop community (you maybe recognize some samples from their work, for sure), but they fucking rocked for three years (1972-1975) and broke up before they could get the attention they deserved.

What's interesting to note is that I'm posting two versions of the same song, recorded three years apart. The first version is my personal favorite, but check out how unbelievably funky they'd gotten by the time they broke up. Holy shit. I prefer the first while acknowledging the far superior funk of the second.